MEETING REGARDING SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE POSITION ON CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS AS THEY RELATE TO THE FOIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600310064-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2004
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: August 8, 1978
• Content Type: MFR

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OLC 78-2795
8 August 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
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SUBJECT: Meeting Regarding Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Position on Congressional Documents as they Relate to the
FOIA
1. On 1 August 1978 a meeting was held in the Dirksen Senate office
building. In attendance were the following:
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CIA Office of Legislative
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CIA Office of General
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Mr. Marc Kurzman, Department of Justice
Civil Division, Freedom of Information
Mr. David Shaw, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence staff
2. The purpose of the. meeting was to discuss and suggest modifications
to an earlier prepared draft of a letter from Chairman Birch Bayh (D., IND.)"to
Admiral Turner. The letter described the Committee's position on release of
Congressional documents under the FOIA held by CIA. Additionally, the letter
(revised draft copy attached) explains in brief the type of document to be included
in the heretofore less clear definition of "Congressional" document.
3. The letter is to be utilized as evidence in the ' case
(FOIA suit) which is now before the court and which, of course, emans the
release by CIA of certain "Church Committee" documents. Hopefully, a signed
copy of the agreed upon text will be forwarded to the DCI before this weeks
Assistant Legislative Counsel
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Admiral Stansfield Turner
Director dCentral Intelligence
Washingto , D.C.
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Dear Director Turner:
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has been
informed that certain Congressional materials, currently in
the physical custody of your Agency, have been requested
pursuant to provisions of the Freedom of Information Act,/'J
More specifically, the Committee understands that the material
requested includes material and information originating with
this Committee and its predecessor, material prepared for
the committee in response to its expressed interests- and, in
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some cases, specific questions put to your Agency.
This Committee (pursuant to S. Res. 400 94th Cong.) and
its predecessor, the Select Committee to Study Governmental
Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, (pursuant
to S. Res. 21, 94th Cong.) has exchanged with your Agency a
great deal of(national security) information and documents of
a very sensitive nature. The history of this free-flow
exchange of information and documents is an essential part
of the consultative and deliberative process necessitated by
the nature of the oversight responsibilities of the Congress.
In fact, it is essential that this procedure continue undi-
minished if this Committee is to discharge its obligations
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to the Congress
this approach,
all of the
records.
and
the
American people. Consistent with
strict security procedures are
in effect for
Committee's
When this
sensitive) intelligence activities
determination will be
completes its work in an area, a
made according to the Senate rules as
to which of its materials and information can. and should be
released to the public after very careful weighing of all
the relevant considerations. We strongly request that you
protect all of this Congressional material and information
from disclosure outside of your Agency prior to the Committee's
release of its documents and information in accordance with
our own procedures. Should you desire to release any SSCI
material for any purpose, we would request that you obtain
our approval prior to making such a release.
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